OTHER COUNTRIES

Rostow (Rosto-na-donu)
Southeast of Zaporozje
On December 2, 1941 Hitler visited the Heeresgruppe Süd. He wanted to know more about the defeat of the German troops near Rostow. Because of the bad weather on the way back his plane had to land in Poltava. He stayed the night and than went back to the Wolfschanze.

Kaliningrad (fromerly called Königsberg)
Location: cut off part of Russia between Poland and Lithuania
There are more cities that were called Königsberg (one in Bayern, one in Poland), but the pictures below seem to have been taken in the city that is now a part of Russia. Hitler was there on March 26, 1938. On March 25, 1938 Hitler began his last political campagne in Königsberg. Six of the fourteen big speeches were held in Austria. More than 99% of the people in both Germany and Austria that voted said ‘yes’ to the Anschluss.

Fromer Province Ostpreussen
Today: Ostpreussen was divided between Poland and Russia
Königsberg was the capital of Ostpreussen. On the picture of Heinrich Hoffman that is shown here you can see Hitler being greeted by the children of Ostpreussen.

Special train of Mannerheim
Location: Immola, in the woods near the airport
Today: the Mannerheim train is located in a place called Mikkeli (see below)
Hitler visited Finland to get the Finns on his side. He met Mannerheim and president Ryti on the 4th of June 1942 in Mannerheims special train. It is said that Mannerheim wasn’t happy at all when Hitler made his surprise visit to Immola. A secret recording was made of Hitler while he was inside. You can hear the tape at this website of the YLE (the main news agency of Finland).

Mannerheims coach
Location today: Mikkeli railwaystation; Mannerheimintie, open for public one day a year (read below)
Thanks to a helpfull friend from Finland we know that the coach of Marshall Mannerheim can be found at the railwaystation of Mikkeli. There’s also a Mannerheim museum and a statue in the city. Mannerheim had his war time headquarters in Mikkeli, in a school-building. This building is a museum now, called the Päämajamuseo (headquarter museum).
The Mannerheim train is opened to the public one day a year, on Mannerheim’s birthday on the 4th of June.

Left: Hitler at the airbase
of Immola
Above: The car that came to pick
him up was the car of
president Ryti

Hitler talked to Mannerheim in Mannersheim private train.
These pictures show Hitler and others on the way to the train
(Look at http://www.turunsanomat.fi)

Memel (today called Klaipèda)
Memel harbor
Location: exact location not known
On March 22, 1939 Ribbentrop signed some sort of agreement in which Memel was turned over to Germany. Hitler visited the city after that. He took the Panzerschiff Deutschland to sail to Memel-harbor.

Left: A postcard of the Panzerschiff Deutschland.
The ship was build in 1931. It’s name was changed in Lützow in 1939, when another ship that had that name was sold to Russia. It is said that Hitler wanted to change the name of the ship because he didn’t want to risk bad publicity that could come with a possible sinking of the ship after battle. In 1945 the German marine sank the ship. In 1947 the Soviets pulled it up and used it as a target untill 1949.

Memel
Memel theatre
Location: theatre square near Karlskronos Aikste and Pilies Gatvé
Hitler spoke to a crowd on the theatre square. To find it you can also search for the location of the so called Annchen von Tharau statue that is on that square.

Left and right: Adolf Hitler speaks to a crowd gathered on the square in front of the theatre
Centre: the building is still there

Speech transmitted by radio from Königsberg
Location: in front of a hotel at the railway station; near city centre
Today: the station is still there; but we’re not sure about the hotel
On March 4, 1933 Hitler spoke through the radio to the German people, on occasion of another election. The regulations following the Reichstagfire were just in effect. The nazi’s got 43,9 % of the votes.
In Königsberg, on the Polish border, Adolf Hitler ended weeks of campaigning. The next day the elections for the Reichstag would be held. Hitler needed the Reichstag to surrender power to his government. His speech was carried by radio and it was a great example of mass-propaganda.

Sutzken (Ostpreussen)
After Hitler came to power almost every city had it’s own Adolf Hitler Strasse or Adolf Hitler Platz. The name of the village Sutzken was even changed into Hitlerhöhe.

Trip to Zürich
Location: unknown
Hitler went to Zürich in the summer of 1923 to raise money for his party.